Description

Copyright 2020

Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"

Pages: 240

Edition: 1st

eBook (Watermarked)

ISBN-10: 0-13-484167-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-484167-0

“Our job as Scrum professionals is to continually improve our ability to use Scrum to deliver products and services that help customers achieve valuable outcomes. This book will help you to improve your ability to apply Scrum.”—From the Foreword by Ken Schwaber, co-author of Scrum

Mastering Professional Scrum is for anyone who wants to deliver increased value by using Scrum more effectively. Leading Scrum practitioners Stephanie Ockerman and Simon Reindl draw on years of Scrum training and coaching to help you return to first principles and apply Scrum with the professionalism required to achieve its transformative potential.

The authors aim to help you focus on proven Scrum approaches for improving quality, getting and using fast feedback, and becoming more adaptable, instead of “going through the motions” and settling for only modest improvements.

Whether you’re a Scrum Master, Development Team member, or Product Owner, you’ll find practical advice for facing challenges with transparency and courage, overcoming a wide array of common challenges, and continually improving your Scrum practice.

Chapter 2: Creating a Strong Team Foundation 23Forming a Team Identity 23What Makes a Good Team Member? 24Who Should Be on a Scrum Team? 27How Do Scrum Teams Form Working Agreements? 29What Does Self-Organization Look Like? 31How Do Scrum Teams Collaborate? 36How Do Teams Progress? 42Summary 47Call to Action 48

Chapter 3: Delivering “Done” Product Increments 49What Is a Definition of “Done”? 50Using Sprint Goals to Get to “Done” 55Getting PBIs to “Done” Earlier in the Sprint 58Limiting Work Items in Progress 62Building in Quality from the Beginning 64Quality Metrics 68Tackling Technical Debt 70Summary 74Call to Action 74

Chapter 4: Improving Value Delivered 77What Is Value? 77Delivering Faster Is a Good Start, But Not Enough 78Product Value and the Scrum Team 80Using the Product Vision to Enliven Team Purpose, Focus, and Identity 81Measuring Value 83Inspecting and Adapting Based on Feedback 90Summary 92Call to Action 93

Chapter 7: Leveraging the Organization to Improve 137Organizations Need to Evolve to Succeed 137Developing People and Teams 138Getting Comfortable with Transparency 144A Culture of Accountability, Not a Culture of Blame 145Letting Go of (the Illusion of) Control 146The Real Power of the Iron Triangle 146Funding Initiatives 148“Being Agile” Is Not the Goal 152Nail It Before You Scale It 153Summary 154Call to Action 154